Pinterest·Data Scientist

Pinterest Data Scientist interview experience

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United StatesPosted Feb 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My Pinterest journey stretched across multiple rounds and felt very interview-heavy: I ended up going through five rounds total.

The first round was with HR, and then the second round shifted to a data scientist conversation that included SQL plus some Python.

After that, there was a round with the hiring manager, and then I had on-site interviews that again included SQL and Python. By the time I got to the later stages, it felt like they were drilling into whether I could handle both querying and implementation, not just one or the other.

I didn’t get an offer. The thing that stuck with me was how consistent the SQL/Python focus remained across rounds, even as the interviewers and settings changed, which made the

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